Al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Iraq claimed responsibility on Thursday for ambushing a three-vehicle convoy in western Baghdad on Wednesday during which three foreigners and an Iraqi were killed.
The insurgents posted a statement on a website regularly used by Al-Qaida in Iraq, saying that in an attack with light and medium weapons and RPG rockets in the Yarmouk area in Baghdad on Jan. 17 ... two vehicles belonging to Israel's Mossad were destroyed and a third one severely damaged.
The authenticity of the statement could not be verified.
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Bush renews freeze on bin Laden assets
1/18/07
President George W. Bush renewed for one year an asset freeze on terrorist chief Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network as well as groups like Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad.
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Fighting in Jolo Kills 13; Arroyo Vows to Wipe Out Terror (Philippines)
ZAMBOANGA CITY, 19 January 2007 — At least 13 Abu Sayyaf militants and soldiers were killed in fierce fighting that erupted yesterday in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, where security forces were battling the Al-Qaeda-linked terror group, officials said.
Officials said two Abu Sayyaf gunmen were also captured by soldiers in the hinterland village of Timpook in Patikul town, where a gunbattle broke out shortly before noon.
“Troops killed at least 10 enemies and captured two others, but three of our soldiers also died in the fighting in Patikul town. The fighting is still raging in the area,” army Maj. Eugene Batara, a spokesman for the Western Mindanao Command, told Arab News.
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PESHAWAR: The wife of Qari Subhanullah the head of Madrassa Iqra Rozatul Atfal, on Thursday challenged, at the Peshawar High Court (PHC), her husband’s arrest by intelligence agencies and local police officials for his alleged links with the Al Qaeda.
Ayesha of Gulbahar, who filed a habeas corpus petition through Advocate Khurshid Ahmad Shahan under Article 199 of the Constitution, said that her husband, Qari Subhanullah, 40, was a religious scholar and ran a madrassa in Gulbahar area of the city.
She said that intelligence agencies personnel, local Crime Investigation Department (CID) officials and army commandos raided her house at midnight on January 14, 2007 and arrested her husband. “During the raid, agencies officials told us that Subhanullah was wanted for his alleged links with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban,” she added.
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